Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 34

When the giants came up to him, the first pushed him with his foot, and said, ‘What worm is this that lies here curled up?’

Who acts: giants, first, worm · What happens: come up, push, say, be, curl up · To what, where: sleep, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giants, first, worm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giants	det
3	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pushed	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 first	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 pushed	nsubj
11	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pushed	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 foot	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 foot	nmod:poss
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pushed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pushed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 What	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 What	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 curled	obl
22	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 What	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 What	cop
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 What	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 curled	nsubj:pass
26	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 curled	aux
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 curled	advmod
28	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	ccomp
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 curled	compound:prt
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 pushed	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the giants		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	push	past	the first	sleep			with sleep's foot	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the first not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a	present	worm					tree rules
5	curl up	present · passive		that		here		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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